What parrots hate

[galeriagila]

Oh, absolutely, NO is a hated word! How dare we say it!

[Pajarita]

Hmmm, I don't know if mine hate the word 'no'. I mean, they don't like been told not to do something but they are incredibly obedient about it considering these are animals that don't have 'obedience' hardwired into them. Sweetpea Senegal LOVES to steal food that he is not allowed to eat (and I do mean real BAD things for him like dog and cat canned food as well as Milk Bones!) or to chew on my shoes (while I am wearing them!) so he is always been told "NO!" and all he does is stop and take a couple of steps back..... then he waits a minute or so and tries again

[galeriagila]

I think that NO, to a parrot, means... try again later and be sneakier about it.

[seagoatdeb]

Gaugan will usually listen to me when i tell her "no" and stop what she is doing but she always does a litlle whirl with her wings out to show me she is not happy i stopped her.....lol

Sometimes she gets into things she shouldnt, just to get my attention, and lets me know by saying, "what are you doing"

[galeriagila]

Lucky for us, they give themselves away!
The Rickeybird yells NO and OWWW before he nips me, for example! Gives me a chance to defend myself!

[seagoatdeb]

....Lol.... Your Ricky Bird sounds like such a fun parrot. Gaugan, will never bite me, so i am very lucky there. Others are not so lucky and she has bit everyone else. She usually gives them a warning so they just need to learn her warning signals to keep from getting bit.

[galeriagila]

Oooooh, you ARE lucky, or maybe just a better companion than I am!

[seagoatdeb]

Its more luck than anything, but its a combination of circumstances, female Poi, and me. Gaugan will play fight with me and she gets quite intense about it but there is never a mark on me, she is very precise with her beak. Even when she has fallen asleep at night, and i wake her up to put her in her cage she starts playing with me, and it may look scary to others, it is gentle on me as can be. If any one else wakes her up she is little miss grumpy. Sometimes I am trying to put her in her cage, and she is hanging upside down on my finger playing, so I always have to be patient....lol

[galeriagila]

Hmmmmm... female Poi... yeah! I do think that male parrots are likelier to be a little... ummm... TESTY, especially during springtime, when they start to feel romantic! No offense, gentlemen! My Rickeybird is doing his little mating-dance... I need to get a vid of it! And he likes to hide under my hair, at the nape of my neck and... (CAN I SAY THIS?)... pleasure himself! I love him so much - I don't mind! I imagine the dark privacy of being under my hair somehow stimulates his cliff-burrowing mating instincts??? Oh, the things we do for our darlings!

[seagoatdeb]

yep thats for sure, i have two Pois each doing a mating dance on each knee right now...lol.. Gugan will burrow into anything with her urges right now, and thinks nothing of climbing inside my clothes...lol